Linux mining distro for the Raspberry PI - MinePeon

[MineForeman.com]

Nope I think he meant this one... http://drillbitsystem.com/forum/index.php?topic=12.0

There are 7 versions of Minepeon modified to have Drillbit specific versions of CGMiner amongst the pages in that thread, but there hasn't been an update since the official Builds of CGMiner and BFGMiner which includes Drillbit support have been available.

The Rules file has been modified to include Drillbit devices and I believe we had to start the mining software with sudo privileges.

I have actually signed up to the forums now, the admin sent me a PM.

I will see what I can do to help the drillbit users out.

One question though, I have found the udev rule's and added them to my repo, are you sure you need to run the miner as root after that (sudo).  Con and Kano are very good at making sure that you can privilege separate miner software from kernel code.

Neil

[Xwolf]

Nope I think he meant this one... http://drillbitsystem.com/forum/index.php?topic=12.0

There are 7 versions of Minepeon modified to have Drillbit specific versions of CGMiner amongst the pages in that thread, but there hasn't been an update since the official Builds of CGMiner and BFGMiner which includes Drillbit support have been available.

The Rules file has been modified to include Drillbit devices and I believe we had to start the mining software with sudo privileges.

Thanks Jedi for providing the link to MineForman   wasn't around much today to answer.

In that thread you'll also find that tkl337 also did a compile of cgminer 3.9.0 which manages to work.

I have a spare SD card so would love to test it out for you if you manage to get 3.10.0 working

[jedimstr]

Nope I think he meant this one... http://drillbitsystem.com/forum/index.php?topic=12.0

There are 7 versions of Minepeon modified to have Drillbit specific versions of CGMiner amongst the pages in that thread, but there hasn't been an update since the official Builds of CGMiner and BFGMiner which includes Drillbit support have been available.

The Rules file has been modified to include Drillbit devices and I believe we had to start the mining software with sudo privileges.

I have actually signed up to the forums now, the admin sent me a PM.

I will see what I can do to help the drillbit users out.

One question though, I have found the udev rule's and added them to my repo, are you sure you need to run the miner as root after that (sudo).  Con and Kano are very good at making sure that you can privilege separate miner software from kernel code.

Neil

Yeah, the sudo setup came in before Con and Kano integrated the Drillbit drivers back into the main branch, so don't know if they fixed it.

Actually running my boards via BFGMiner 3.10.0 right now on Debian on BBB (will switch to Minepeon on BBB when available) where I run it under sudo and address the boards directly via their dev paths rather than scan. They're working fine that way.

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi Mineforeman

I like the tab headers in MinePeon 0.2.5 pr1   when you log in via Chrome.

It means you can monitor your rPi from any device logged into Chrome (using the "other devices" at the bottom of the screen)

Is there an easy way to run BFGminer in a browser tab, instead of a console screen on desktop?

I can remote monitor and control my rPi using my android phone as if I am in the same room, but the remote PC still needs to come through something like "teamviewer".

[tk1337]

I really haven't had a chance to even download MinePeon 0.2.5 yet (I've been pretty busy with work lately), however, I'll try to download it tomorrow night.

People have been reporting that this version has broke several plugins, so... aside from the drillbit devices reportedly not working I need to go through the code and see what got changed so I can update the plugins.

I've got to admit, I wish things would stop changing so drastically, from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4 a lot of changes happened, now from 0.2.4 to 0.2.5 it seems the same way judging by the error messages people have been sending me (I could be wrong as I haven't looked at it yet). Hopefully making the plugin updates backwards compatible with 0.2.4 won't be an annoyance.

@Neil - I couldn't submit the changes to the rules in udev for Drillbit devices as well as other changes I made to make Drillbit devices work within the images I put out, as the system files aren't in the git repo, otherwise I would have submitted those a month+ ago.

[MineForeman.com]

I really haven't had a chance to even download MinePeon 0.2.5 yet (I've been pretty busy with work lately), however, I'll try to download it tomorrow night.

People have been reporting that this version has broke several plugins, so... aside from the drillbit devices reportedly not working I need to go through the code and see what got changed so I can update the plugins.

It's not as bad as you may think, I just forgot to install python (doh).  All the plugins work as soon as you do that.

I've got to admit, I wish things would stop changing so drastically, from 0.2.3 to 0.2.4 a lot of changes happened, now from 0.2.4 to 0.2.5 it seems the same way judging by the error messages people have been sending me (I could be wrong as I haven't looked at it yet). Hopefully making the plugin updates backwards compatible with 0.2.4 won't be an annoyance.

0.2.4 plugins are still the norm and still work (with python installed) and I have no intention to break backwards compatibility, I will, in fact make sure it is kept.  I try to change little as possible, but people are always after features and drivers.  When you login you will find less changed then you think (at least in the way things work).

@Neil - I couldn't submit the changes to the rules in udev for Drillbit devices as well as other changes I made to make Drillbit devices work within the images I put out, as the system files aren't in the git repo, otherwise I would have submitted those a month+ ago.

I have the udev rules now .  No drillbits to test them though.


Neil

[tripppn]

Is python something I can easily install from SSH?

[raystream]

i have a little problem running bfgminer 3.10.0 with 2 block erupters.

ICA 0:       | 427.1/330.6/ 0.00Mh/s | A:  0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/100%
ICA 1:       | 402.2/332.2/326.8Mh/s | A:425 R:2+0(.47%) HW:0/none

ICA1 works like it should but ICA0 not.
i can see 427.1Mh/s on ICA0 but why there is A: 0?

please help

[MineForeman.com]

Is python something I can easily install from SSH?

I am not in foront of it but;-

pacman -Syu python

Should work.

Neil

[MineForeman.com]

i have a little problem running bfgminer 3.10.0 with 2 block erupters.

ICA 0:       | 427.1/330.6/ 0.00Mh/s | A:  0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/100%
ICA 1:       | 402.2/332.2/326.8Mh/s | A:425 R:2+0(.47%) HW:0/none

ICA1 works like it should but ICA0 not.
i can see 427.1Mh/s on ICA0 but why there is A: 0?

please help

i have a little problem running bfgminer 3.10.0 with 2 block erupters.

ICA 0:       | 427.1/330.6/ 0.00Mh/s | A:  0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/100%
ICA 1:       | 402.2/332.2/326.8Mh/s | A:425 R:2+0(.47%) HW:0/none

ICA1 works like it should but ICA0 not.
i can see 427.1Mh/s on ICA0 but why there is A: 0?

please help

What have you tried?

My first thing to do would be to see if cgminer does anything different.

Neil

[Mudbankkeith]

Hi MineForeman.com

I like the tab headers in MinePeon 0.2.5 pr1   when you log in via Chrome.

I have a headless mini PC running two sessions of BFG, also I have two rPi's running MinePeon.

If I open my Chrome browser for both of these devices on the headless PC, This gives me two tabs showing the rPi activity.


It means I can monitor (and control) both rPi from any device logged into Chrome (using the "other devices" at the bottom of the chrome screen)


Is there an easy way to run BFGminer in a browser tab, instead of a console screen on desktop? This would allow BFG to be monitored and controlled via the Chrome tab.

Otherwise the remote PC still needs to come through something like "teamviewer".

[tripppn]

Is python something I can easily install from SSH?

I am not in foront of it but;-

pacman -Syu python

Should work.

Neil

Sorry... Linux tard... what are all the commands I would have to put in after sshing in?

[tripppn]

Does anyone know of a good Linux for dummies type book I could pick up and try and figure some of this stuff out so I can stop asking dumb questions?

[ct1aic]

i have a little problem running bfgminer 3.10.0 with 2 block erupters.

ICA 0:       | 427.1/330.6/ 0.00Mh/s | A:  0 R:0+0(none) HW:1/100%
ICA 1:       | 402.2/332.2/326.8Mh/s | A:425 R:2+0(.47%) HW:0/none

ICA1 works like it should but ICA0 not.
i can see 427.1Mh/s on ICA0 but why there is A: 0?

please help

What type of powered HUB are you using? Each USB Block Erupter needs half ampere, if not overclocked and the RPI also needs some energy...

[MineForeman.com]

Sorry... Linux tard... what are all the commands I would have to put in after sshing in?

No worries,

sudo pacman -Syu python

Should do it.  Answer yes.

Neil

[tripppn]

Sorry... Linux tard... what are all the commands I would have to put in after sshing in?

No worries,

sudo pacman -Syu python

Should do it.  Answer yes.

Neil

That did it.  Thanks Niel

[tripppn]

edit:  Not LCDstats, Piminer

So what I'm doing is trying to get LCDstats to work.  Apparently doing installing python before I install lcdstats isn't doing the trick.

After I run the python install you gave me it does it's thing then I run the commands to install lcdstats... Here's what I get.

[minepeon@minepeon ~]$ cd ~/
[minepeon@minepeon ~]$ rm -rf minepeon-plugin-PiMiner
[minepeon@minepeon ~]$ git clone https://github.com/MineForeman/minepeon-plugin-PiMiner.git
Cloning into 'minepeon-plugin-PiMiner'...
remote: Reusing existing pack: 138, done.
remote: Total 138 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Receiving objects: 100% (138/138), 91.91 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (34/34), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
[minepeon@minepeon ~]$ cd minepeon-plugin-PiMiner
[minepeon@minepeon minepeon-plugin-PiMiner]$ ./install.sh
            _
           (_)
  _ __ ___  _ _ __   ___ _ __   ___  ___  _ __
 |  _   _ \| |  _ \ / _ \  _ \ / _ \/ _ \|  _ \
 | | | | | | | | | |  __/ |_) |  __/ (_) | | | |
 |_| |_| |_|_|_| |_|\___|  __/ \___|\___/|_| |_|
                        | |
                        |_|

This will install the PiMiner LCD plugin for your MinePeon
it will require sudo access to install the service and ask
you for your password

You will need an Adafruit 16x2 LCD+Keypad Kit for Raspberry Pi
avalible from http://www.adafruit.com/. The origional code and
libraries are availible from https://github.com/adafruit/PiMiner
and https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit-Raspberry-Pi-Python-Code

Once it is going you will need to adjust the potentiometer
(the thing between the chip and the buttons) to adjust the
contrast. (Thank 6010fd12 for that tip)


Are you sure? [y/n]y
[sudo] password for minepeon:
ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/piminer.service' '/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/piminer.service'
[minepeon@minepeon minepeon-plugin-PiMiner]$

Any ideas or is LCDstats just not working with this version right now?

[MineForeman.com]

Any ideas or is LCDstats just not working with this version right now?

It is a PR (pre release) but I will see if I can have a look tonight.  First thing on my list is to fix a JavaScript date problem though.

Neil

[tripppn]

Any ideas or is LCDstats just not working with this version right now?

It is a PR (pre release) but I will see if I can have a look tonight.  First thing on my list is to fix a JavaScript date problem though.

Neil

Not that big of a deal. It should be low on your priority list but when you said you forgot to install python and that's why plugins weren't working I got all excited cause I miss my little LCD screen.

Thanks again Neil

[deagel]

Any ideas or is LCDstats just not working with this version right now?

It is a PR (pre release) but I will see if I can have a look tonight.  First thing on my list is to fix a JavaScript date problem though.

Neil

Not that big of a deal. It should be low on your priority list but when you said you forgot to install python and that's why plugins weren't working I got all excited cause I miss my little LCD screen.

Thanks again Neil

Hi,
you need two packages:
sudo pacman -Syu python i2c-tools

after a reboot my display are working.